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- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 3 days ago:
Capitalism. The rich owner types don’t like this sort of thing, and they have a lot of power. They don’t really have coherent values except “in-group to protect, out-group to bind” and “no one tells me what to do. i tell you what to do.”
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 3 days ago:
Honestly, probably yes. People are emotional people and a face to face conversation can be a big impact.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_canvassing is one take on it
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 4 days ago:
Zohran had many volunteers knocking on doors and talking to people. He’s also charismatic, and focused on concrete actionable things.
It’s hard to get people mad about “let’s run buses on time”.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 days ago:
Broadly, where the optimal path is the boring or tedious path.
Imagine an action game where you fight monsters and get coins for defeating them. Coins can be exchanged to buy new moves, advance the plot, and so on. Basic game loop.
Now imagine that you get triple coins if you wear the red shirt when fighting red monsters. Every time you see a red monster, you could go into the menu, into equipment, into body armor, swap on the red shirt, exit all the menus, and kill the monster. Then repeat all that for blue shirt and blue monsters.
This is a made up example but some games do shit like that, where you have to do something tedious for a big payoff.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 6 days ago:
I don’t let the problem get that bad in the first place.
On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven’t looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 week ago:
To many “smart” people have stood up and taken the credit for hundreds of others and generations of work.
Like CEOs taking credit for all the work their engineers did.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
I didn’t get one because it’s too expensive.
Steam deck was a little pricey but it has a backlog of games going back like 50 years, and I already have a large library. Plus the games are cheaper.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 1 week ago:
I’ve sent this to many coworkers.
I wanted to introduce a jar where every time you sent a useless “hello” message you had to put double whatever you put in last time (starting at $1). People are empty headed idiots maybe losing +$1000 will wake them up.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
I feel like online spaces like lemmy over represent some behaviors.
- Comment on A conservative think tank is suing Oregon over a new law that makes it illegal to impersonate a union representative 1 week ago:
The law allows union representatives to sue anyone for $6,250 if they can prove an individual falsely impersonated a union representative.
That is too small a fine.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask but maybe this comic will be interesting anyway
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 week ago:
People are idiots. They believe things that feel good.
- Comment on Evidence 1 week ago:
People believe based on feelings, not facts. That’s all it is.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve read your post a dozen times and I’m confused.
Are you at the $5 million cap in this scenario? You’re certainly not going to waste away with $500k/year coming in, labor free.
Or are you closer to median income of like $80k, and thus have no funds for a big passion project?
Either way, you can always pool resources and form an organization of some sort. We don’t really want a ton of power collected in individuals. Especially not if the only reason they have that power is because they had money.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 2 weeks ago:
No one needs more than $5 million. That’s enough for a conservative investment portfolio to give you a mid six figure income without doing any labor. Watch TV all day and eat chips, still net six figures.
Maybe then no one can afford mega mansions and mega yachts, but I’m okay with that. We don’t need that much concentration of wealth.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It kind of bothers me that people use “introvert” to mean like “crippling social anxiety and agoraphobia”.
Maybe it’s just online spaces accumulate more people who identify with those disorders, and “introvert” sounds nicer .
- Comment on handling strays 2 weeks ago:
Tabletop RPGs are a good and cost effective hobby. You can play DND with the free “SRD” rules posted online, but you won’t get the fancy pictures and all the extras.
There are other games like it that are even cheaper. My personal favorite is Fate. Free rules, only needs four six sided dice.
The main problem is finding a good group to play with. DND is mega popular so if you’re just looking for social, it’s a good starting point. If you’re not into fantasy, you can branch off into other games later.
- Comment on How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. 3 weeks ago:
they are not stupid people but they always fall for and buy in on the dumbest aspects of the right.
That sounds like they are stupid people.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played
100% Orange Juicemyself but a friend was super into it when it came out. - Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
Nioh1 was pretty okay. Never finished it. Nioh2 is one of my favorites in the genre, and I play it like once a year. It’s an improvement in every way.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 weeks ago:
The data center haters are the strangest, to me. Because there’s this default assumption that data centers can never be powered by renewable energy
Opportunity costs
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 4 weeks ago:
There’s a single mod that purports to convert the game to pathfinder 2e. I’m not sure if the balance isn’t to my taste or if I was doing something wrong, but my characters all had very low hit chances on their first attack. Missing isn’t fun for me
I believe it was this one: mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/pathfinder2ndedition#desc…
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 4 weeks ago:
I tried a Pathfinder mod, but it wasn’t quite doing it for me. I’m not sure what would do it for me exactly. I’m being a stereotypical customer where I don’t know what I want, but I can tell you what I don’t like, heh.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it was a slog, but I do find DND 5e an unsatisfying system. You spend a long time waiting to get to the cool parts of your character, and unlimited resting breaks dnd’s already dubious balance.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 4 weeks ago:
Played for a while, a few times, but there’s not much challenge so I don’t stick around that long. Got strong enough to kill all the sentinels easily. Got a freighter and billions of credits. Lots of resources.
I can imagine deeper stuff they could do, and maybe they will one day.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
You’re not listening to me and I don’t think you’re worth listening to. Go away. Goodbye.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
I like and respect teachers, but I’m a software developer and I’m telling you that adding extra parenthesis often adds clarity and makes the whole process smoother. You exist in a whole other context that has norms and assumptions that do not apply to what I’m talking about.
You being technically correct is irrelevant.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
Adults who have forgotten the rules who I work with and read/write code where it’s important. In the real world.
This is like some pure maths vs real life engineering cliché.
You’re either being deliberately obtuse or you’re painfully naive.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
That’s because it’s already clear as is, as per the rules of Maths.
More people evaluate
2+3x4incorrectly than2+(3x4). So, no, your answer does not hold up to my observed reality. You can throw as many “well technically” and “well actually” as you want, but that’s not going to fix the bug or make a pr.